hi.
Both are cool!
Comments:
1. Swirl: on-board HSCB controls wouldn't hurt.
2. Ebboss: Can't get Angle to work. HSCB controls may also be useful.

ok I'll see if I can add some extra hsbc param.
2. yes emboss angle is not yet active

good news, I found how to pass textures as input for ipp and to work with the shader, so now it open many possibilities like distortion from a texture (works fine in my prototype), mask, mix etc...

just in wait

control distortion with var4

what I need now is an operator (yellow) to control scale, rotate, transalte of the texture (to animate them), I don't see how to do without, instead of put those control in every ipp, do you see existing method ? in fact a transform op but with a bitmap in entry as bitmap operator are not animatable.

1. This is great, you've found a solution! Works OK. It will be great to add it as an option for your initial Distort op!
2. Hmmm... It turns out you can not adapt the anim procedures used in Sprites op? As for the existing methods of animating textures, what I can remember is Rotate + Loop + Atlas (too tedious...). Then I think you will also have to make Distort understand Atlas anim...

Oh, I forgot. I think I know what might help. Can you use Layer2d as an input for Distortion instead of a plain texture?

yes but I think atlas is too limiting here.
I think the best is to have a new op that take a bitmap and give control on 2d texture (center, totate, scroll, size, etc..), a bit like layer2d.

yes maybe I can do something with layer2d to redirect output as texture with a flag, or use its textures.... note that layer 2d lacks of rotate...
i'll go study that

I think you could add Rotate to Layer2d as a flag and leave its output as it is and make Distort take Layer2d as input. This way you can enhance 2 operators instead of just 1

hey, great stuff in there merge to of. verso?

some news, I'm working on a custom Ipp where you can code and compil at runtime your own shader, to extend to infinite the ipp possibility

hey skinny I found this shader it looks like a bit like artfactory : http://developer.download.nvidia.com/sh ... post_tiles (the third, post tiles)

tested and It works (on screenshot it's just on a texture with customMaterial, but imagine the same result on a scene 3d)

1. Custom ipp: Yey! This will be fantastic! I will keep praying for you to the Mighty Megatron!
2. aRTifakktory clone: Yes. Looks similar... Maybe add some blur and HSCB controls?

1. yes, It will be ubber great. the incredible ipp of the death II
2. yes but you can add some color ipp after, nop ?

Sure, but I still can't fully understand how ipp chains work in wz4. Especially masking. For me it's always been a bit of 'voodoo magic' and trial and error.
A small tutorial would come in handy.

you can sacrifice an animal on the altar of megatron.
customIPP is alive and works

need to do things much cleaner but it's ok...

Yey! Animals and virgins are good and all, but the best sacrifice would be a decent demo, wouldn't it?
Do you have a working customIPP test prototype yet? (for testing puposes)